The No. 1 item on Bud Selig’s wish list is one more Wild Card team for each league, and it’s another wrongheaded move by the commissioner.

The objective — aside from the TV cash — is to make a division championship more valuable with the Wild Carders subject to a short series — three games or even one.

But that’s just passing things down. Say the Yankees finish about where they are now, seven or eight games ahead of the next-best team. Why would the Angels or Rays deserve the opportunity to knock off a team that clearly outplayed them over 162 games in a one-shot deal?

Selig’s top talking point is that Major League Baseball would still be sending the lowest percentage of teams to the postseason compared to any other major professional sport. Maybe he’s been taking PR lessons from Roger Goodell.

It’s an end around. The NFL plays 16 regular-season games. The NBA and NHL play 82. MLB plays 162. It’s a six-month test that exists to determine the best teams. Selig should let it do so.

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Somebody in the Jets’ equipment room has a sense of history – or humor.

Rookie quarterback Greg McElroy out of the University of Alabama has been wearing No. 14 in the preseason. Obviously the jersey number of one former Crimson Tide Jet quarterback, Joe Willie Namath, is out of circulation.

So McElroy — who wore Namath’s No. 12 at Alabama — got the number of another Tide QB who wore the green. Of course, Richard Todd’s career wasn’t quite as noteworthy

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It would have been money wasted if A.J. Burnett had been exactly who everybody thought he was when the Yankees signed him — wildly talented and just as unreliable.

Somehow, he turned out to be worse.

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The reason there’s so much debate about the Yankee rotation that follows CC Sabathia in the playoffs is the reason any conversation drags on too long: There’s no good answer.

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David Einhorn is out.

Jesus Montero is in.

Welcome to September.

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Now that Fred Wilpon’s plan to sell a big chunk of his baseball team to hedge-fund boss David Einhorn has fallen apart, Wilpon says Plan B is to sell smaller shares to family and friends and raise a similar amount in the area of $200 million.

First of all, that’s some pretty nice company to run in. I’d love the opportunity just to get kicked out of that room.

Secondly, wasn’t the last investment Wilpon referred to friends and family with Bernie Madoff?

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There’s a fair point that expanding instant replay in baseball would add unnecessary delays to games that are already bogged down. You know the guy driving 50 miles an hour in the left lane? That’s your average Major League Baseball game. The guy driving 40 is a Yanks-Red Sox game on ESPN.

But the solution is already right there in the pace of the game. It’s slow enough to have a fifth umpire in a booth who would have time in the natural flow to figure out if a play needs to be reviewed.

The review doesn’t go down to the on-field umpires that have to retreat into a video room. One extra ump in a booth — "Hold on, guys. I’m going to take a quick extra look at this" — making the call.